About

What

Fablabs.io
is the online social network of the international Fab Lab community. It started as a spin-off project in Fab Lab Barcelona by Tomas Diez and John Rees, and is the current official list of Fab Labs that share same principles, tools, and philosophy around the future of technology and its role in society.
Fablabs.io
is an exchange platform for people, labs, projects, machines, events and groups that operate around the Fab Lab Network, which collaboration and communication tools in order to align interests and to expand the global scale of this community.

The Fab Lab Network is an open, creative community of fabricators, artists, scientists, engineers, educators, students, amateurs, professionals, ages 5 to 75+, located in more than 40 countries in approximately 1000 Fab Labs.
Fablabs.io
is the official platform for the Fab Lab Network, where Fab Labs are mapped, knowledge is shared, projects are developed and where the community discuss these topics.
You can read more about Fab Labs
here.

By using
Fablabs.io
all Fab Labs are mapped and connected globally, and their knowledge and technical and design innovations become embedded in the larger ecosystem of the Fab Lab Network, which is an open, creative community of fabricators, artists, scientists, engineers, educators, students, amateurs, and professionals located in more than 75 countries.

Why

Around 1000 Fab Labs around the world are currently using this platform to share developments and collaborate online. The
Fablabs.io
platform also fosters interactions between designers, makers and users, and aims to engage discussions about matters of concerns of the wider public in which Fab Labs are embedded, in cities and remote areas of the world.

Fablabs.io
is not intended to replace existing platforms such as Facebook or GitHub, which are widely used by makers, hackers and technologists to document and share open source developments. In fact, when adding a project to the
Fablabs.io
repository, it is possible to include links to Github repositories.

By adding new features and integrating existing platforms,
Fablabs.io
facilitates distributed collaborations across participants in different Fab Labs and it embeds their creations in the more specific ecosystem of the maker community.

The current team started working in October 2016, it will grow in the following months and at the moment these are its members:

Massimo Menichinelli, Project Manager

Matias Verderau, Network Manager

Gui Seiz, Creative Director and Design

Mariana Quintero, Design

Future

As
Fablabs.io
is open source, you can collaborate on its development. We have set up the
Site feedback
category on
our discussion platform
for discussing,
Fablabs.io
and its future; if you have instead messages regarding the technical development or bugs of the platform, we would ask you to discuss these with issues on the
Fablabs.io
repository on GitHub at
https://github.com/fablabbcn/fablabs/issues

How can we help you?

Welcome to fablabs.io!

Here are few suggestions about how we can help you and how you can participate
and talk with us if you have any question or problem regarding the Fablabs.io
platform.

Discuss with the community

You can ask for support to the administrators and the whole community
in the Fablabs.io Discuss section within the
Site feedback category.
Site feedback category
we would also love to hear your ideas and suggestions regarding Fablabs.io,
its features, development, how it works and how we can improve it.

Help with the technical development on GitHub

If you have instead messages regarding the technical development or bugs
of the platform, we would ask you to discuss these on the Fablabs.io repositories
on GitHub (Fablabs.io is free/open source software!) at
https://github.com/fablabbcn/fablabs.